Football | Pregame and halftime updates

Jamie Jones is the workhorse for Lyons with 11 carries for 74 yards and both touchdowns.

Mac Zabriskie has a pair of touchdown passes for South. He is 9-for-12 for 135 yards.

-Bill Harrison

Glenbard North 21, Palatine 14

So much for this being a down year for the DuPage Valley Conference. Glenbard North is the latest DVC team making things interesting in the playoffs.

The Panthers hold a 21-14 halftime lead over No. 3-seed Palatine in Carol Stream. If this holds up, the Panthers will be the third of five DVC playoff teams to reach the state quarterfinals.

Phil Jackson has been a one-man wrecking crew for the Panthers, who have 248 yards of offense. Jackson has 147 yards on 13 carries with three touchdowns. He also has one sack, a tackle for loss and had a pass breakup on Palatine's last-second hail mary attempt at the goal line.

The Pirates, who have a nine-game winning streak, held leads of 7-0 and 14-7 but the Panthers kept responding. Jackson evened the game 7-7 from the 3 early in the second quarter, and later added scoring runs of 63 and 15.

Cam Kuksa has been the story for the Pirates. Kuksa scored a remarkable touchdown in which he was helicopter flipped at the goal-line and landed on his feet in the end zone to give Pirates a 14-7 lead midway through the second.

Quarterback Aaron Bailey has 116 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries and a 76-yard punt in the first half Saturday night for host Bolingbrook.

Bailey made his presence felt immediately, breaking off a 38-yard run on the game's first play to ignite an 11-play, 80-yard drive that Jaden Huff finished off with a 2-yard TD run.

Bolingbrook's second score didn't come until late in the first half.

Facing a fourth-and-1 from the Mount Carmel 34, Bailey sold a fake to the fullback and was never touched on the way to giving Bolingbrook (9-1) a 14-0 lead with 2 minutes, 18 seconds left before halftime.

Only one of Mount Carmel's four possessions landed in Raiders' territory. The Caravan (7-3) did not get any closer after Brandon Greer broke a 43-yard run to the Bolingbrook 32 early in the second quarter, but a personal foul two plays later effectively killed that opportunity.

-Mike Helfgot

Stevenson 17, Maine South 7

There's still 24 minutes to play, but through the first half of football in Lincolnshire on Saturday afternoon, the upset of the season is stirring. After being knocked out of the game on the first offensive play, Stevenson quarterback Matt Micucci has been nearly flawless, going 9-for-13 for 132 yards and a touchdown.

Returning to the lineup after the rocky start, Micucci engineered a five-play, 50-yard drive that concluded with a 5-yard TD hookup with Matt Morrissey for a 7-0 lead.

On the next series, following Arthur Polk's recovering of a Matt Alviti fumble, Micucci's 20-yard connection to Troy Radtke set up a 10-yard Kevin Foley TD run as the Patriots claimed a 14-0 edge.

After four punts and two turnovers, Alviti finally brought the three-time defending state champs to life, scrambling and finding Jimmy Frankos for a wide-open 35-yard score.

Micucci again brought Stevenson back, driving the Patriots to the Maine South 11 before booting a 28-yard field goal.

-Phil English

Class 7A

Rockford Boylan 23, Wheaton North 7

Boylan quarterback Lamont Toney had a 31-yard touchdown run to give the Titans a 7-0 first-quarter lead. Wide receiver Adonis Brown had a key upfield block to free Toney for the score.

Later in the first, Boylan was driving when Wheaton North defensive lineman Jonathan Chapman intercepted Toney's pass and returned it to Boylan's 45-yard line. But the Falcons turned it over on downs when Brown deflected a pass intended for Wheaton North receiver Matt Biegalski.

In the second quarter, Boylan hit a field goal and defensive back Ty Zimmerman recovered a fumble. Running backs DeMarcus Vines and Tyreis Thomas also ran in scores for the 23-0 lead.

Wheaton North quarterback Johnny Peltz was 3-of-13 through most of the half, but the Falcons then switched to a hurry up offense, after which Peltz was 7-of-8 for 69 yards and wide receiver Johnny Daniels had a 7-yard touchdown catch.

Thomas leads all players with 15 rushes for 169 yards.

- Bob Bajek

Lake Zurich 10, Glenbard West 3

It's a defensive struggle in Glen Ellyn at the half, as Lake Zurich leads Glenbard West 10-3. The only touchdown came on Mike Shield's 15-yard scamper through the middle of the line with 4 seconds left in the first quarter. The drive started at the Hilltoppers' 15 after a short punt and an unnecessary roughness penalty, the fourth of five flags in the half.